Linux Security: Auditing, Hardening and Compliance

Tag: ssh daemon

Introduction into Ed25519 OpenSSH 6.5 added support for Ed25519 as a public key type. It is using an elliptic curve signature scheme, which offers better security than ECDSA and DSA. At the same time it also has good performance. This type of keys may be used for user and host keys. With this in mind, it is great to be used together with OpenSSH. In this article we have a look at this new key type. DSA or RSA Many […]

Audit and harden your SSH configuration SSH (Secure SHell) is a commonly used protocol for secure data communications between systems. It is rare to find systems not having this service running. As this opens up a potential gateway into the system, hardening the configuration of the SSH server is an important step in server hardening. In this guide we will focus on several common configuration options of SSH and improve it. Client and Server SSH has two parts: the client used […]